GA Video Lectures

September 11 – Comparing the flints of the Upper Cretaceous of England with the cherts/flints from the Eocene-Miocene White Limestone of Jamaica Prof Simon F. Mitchell, from The University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica

July 10 – A live-streamed vLecture: The weird and wonderful world of Sedimentology
Dr Jon Noad

Scheduled for 5 June & now available. 2019 GASS Best Presentation Award winner: Deep carbon cycling over the past 200 million years: contributions from tectonic settings. Kevin Wong (2019 Award Winner)

March 6 – Environments and Landscapes during the development of the mid-Palaeocene Hebridean Igneous Province, NW Scotland
Dr Ian Williamson

February 7 – Drilling the Chicxulub Impact Crater
Prof Jo Morgan

January 3 – Strange bedfellows (Life, Oxygen and Gypsum) during the emergence of complex life around the Ediacaran Cambrian transition
Prof Graham Shields

December 6 – The Secret Life of the starfish: The origin of asterozoan echinoderms in the Ordovician
Dr Aaron Hunter

October 4 – Searching for an impact crater in Scotland
Dr Mike Simms

July 5 – Cretaceous amber: bits of ancient ecosystems
Dr Ricardo Perez-De-La-Fuente

June 7 – Virtual Reality and Drone Mapping- Geological Applications of Immersive Learning
Claudia Ruiz-Graham

May 3 – AGM and Presidential Address
Risky Business –Exploring for Hydrocarbons
Nick Pierpoint

April 5 – Minerals of the English Midlands
Roy Starkey

March 8 – Halstead Lecture
The secret Life of salt giants: 3d seismic data reveals new insights into the structural evolution of salt-influenced passive margins
Sian Evans

February 1 – Henry Stopes Lecture
The Climate, palaeogeography and early human settlement of Britain Prof Nick Ashton

January 4 2019 – Control the Drainage: the Gospel Accorded to Sinkholes
Dr Tony Waltham

December 7 2018 – Hyoliths – where they fit in
Dr Martin Smith

October 5th – Redrawing the geological map of South Wales
Professor John C. W. Cope

May 4 2018 – AGM and Presidential Address
Geoconservation for science and society
Dr Colin Prosser

April 6 2018 – Halstead Lecture – Dr Craig McGee
How it’s made: Volcanoes

February 2 2018 – Mike Howgate
A sceptical look at the Dino-Bird controvesy.

January 5 2018 – Dr Danny Clark-Lowes
Enigmas in Himalayan Geology.

December 1 2017 – Prof Tamsin Mather
Volcanoes and Global change?

October 6 – Dr Maria McNamara
New Advances in the study of fossil animal colour

July 7 – Antonio Ferreira
Radon, the Geogenic Gas

June 2 2017- Dean Lomax
The incredible Ichthyosaurus: a reassessment of a British Jurassic Icon

May 5 2017- Dr Colin Prosser
AGM and Presidential Address
Conserving Rocks! – How did that come about? A brief history of Geoconservation in the UK

April 7 2017- Professor Tim Reston – Crustal Thinning – What happens when a continent breaks up
This lecture is only available as an audio recording.

March 3 2017 – Dr Thomas Gernon – Diamonds and Chocolate: New Volcanic Process Discovered

February 3 2017- Prof Simon Lewis – The Palaeolithic of Breckland: old sites, new questions
Henry Stopes Memorial Lecture

January 6 2017 – Prof Paul Upchurch – New Perspectives on dinosaur diversity and extinction

December 2 2016 – Prof John Cosgrove – The Evolution of a fold thrust belt – an example from the Zagros Mountains of Iran

October 7 2016 – Haydon Bailey – The Geology of the Chilterns and the potential impact of HS2

July 1 2016 – Dr Lidia Lonergan – The Geology and Scenery of Italy: the Role of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonic Plates

June 3 2016- Dr Colin Summerhayes, Cambridge – Earth’s Climate Evolution

Unfortunately, a recording fault meant that the lecture powerpoints were not recorded. These can be downloaded here ( Dr Colin Summerhayes, PPT) and you can view these alongside listening to the recording.

May 6 2016 – Dr Haydon Bailey – AGM and Presidential Address
Foraminifera II: Planktonics – The free floating story

April 1 2016- Dr Julie Prytulak – The Biggest Volcano on Earth

March 11 2016 – Dr Nick Longrich – Giant marine reptiles and whales during the Eocene-Oligocene cooling event

February 5 2016 – Dr Imran Rahman – A Virtual World of Palaeontology

January 8 2016 – Dr Fausto Ferraccioli – The Gambursev Subglacial Mountains parodox in East Antarctica: solved or enduringly enigmatic?

December 11th 2015 – Dr Helen Dacre – The largest airspace shutdown since WWII: Volcanic ash prediction and its challenges

2nd October 2015 – Chris Jackson – The rock that wouldn’t stay still; an introduction to salt

5th June 2015 – Mike Rumsey – Unusual minerals in the Mendip Hills

1st May 2015 – Haydon Bailey – AGM and Presidential Address

6th March 2015 – Dave Martill

13th February 2015 – Alex Liu

9th January 2015 – Dr Rebecca Bell

5th December 2014 – Andrew Bloodworth

4th July 2014 – Ed Jarzembowski

9th May 2014 – Rory Mortimore – AGM and Presidential Address

4th April 2014 – Vladimir Zholobenko

7th March 2014 – Haydon Bailey

February 2014 – Lecture not available

January 2014 – Lecture not available

6th December 2013 – Mark Sutton

November 2013 – Lecture not available

4th October 2013 – Phil Harding

5th July 2013 – Leanne Hughes

7th June 2013 – Malcolm Butler

1st May 2013 – GA Presidential Address: Professor Rory Mortimore

5th April 2013 – Haydon Bailey

1st March 2013 – Rory Mortimore

January/February 2013 – Lectures not available

7th December 2012 – Phil Jardine